stanhope

See also: Stanhope

English

Etymology 1

From Stanhope (“a surname”). Named after Captain Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope, for whom it was first built.

Noun

stanhope (plural stanhopes)

1. A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
   • 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

     Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

Etymology 2

Named after Charles, the third Earl of Stanhope, the inventor of this magnifying glass design.

Noun

stanhope (plural stanhopes)

1. A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
2. An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron

Anagrams

• Stephano, phaetons, phonates, satphone